Day #4
Break on through to the other side! We ran right smack dab into the weather system that was causing us all the grief for the past couple of days. We haven’t broken free yet, the skys are still gray, and rain is all around. The waves and winds are becoming less chaotic and more synchronized.
Before shaking the reefs out, some long naps were in order to recharge and make sure the weather we were seeing was going to continue. All good since this morning, little motor sailing when the winds went real light, but back on sails alone now that the winds are over consistent above 8knots. Going to be another dark night, clouds, sliver of a moon and a very late moon rise at that.
Its been slow going, hopefully we can get moving a bit better with the improving conditions. Supposed to have some decent wind and weather for a few days. The waves will remain large at 4M, er 12 footers, might still be bouncy.
See the image attached, that rest stuff on the right of the photo is what we were going through. That RED on the bottom is what we were definitely NOT wanting to get involved with. When we left Easter the most comfortable direction was directly west which we would have run right into that big RED. Only spotted that on the weather reports after we had already gone 25 miles toward it. Yikes, thus the next days were trying to head north up that other red zone is where we were getting bounced around a bit.
999 of 1414 miles left to go. [realtime]
At 4/4/2019 @ 2:50 AM UTC Our position: 26°26.43’S, 117°03.76’W Traveling 6.3 heading 283T
Google says we are here www.google.com/maps/place/-26.44050,-117.06267
